Host-defense peptides from skin secretions of the octoploid frogs Xenopus vestitus and Xenopus wittei (Pipidae): Insights into evolutionary relationships

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-28

  Mechkarska, Milena ^a   Coquet, Laurent ^b,c   Leprince, Jérôme ^c   Jouenne, Thierry ^b,c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c   Michalak, Katarzyna ^d,e   Michalak, Pawel ^d,e   Conlon, J Michael ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROUEN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopolyploidy; Antimicrobial; Caerulein precursor fragment; Frog skin; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CAERULEIN PRECURSOR FRAGMENT PROTEIN; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPSIN PRECURSOR FRAGMENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE-GLY-LEU-AMIDE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG POTENCY; EVOLUTION; HEMOLYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IC 50; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRAPLOIDY; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS VESTITUS; XENOPUS WITTEI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SKIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SKIN; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84905366911     PISSN: 1744117X     EISSN: 18780407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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